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1
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Short lived

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Éphémère

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To turn into

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Virer à

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To swirl

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Tournoyer

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To spread out

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Déployer

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Rainbow

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L’arc-en-ciel

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To build castles in the air (make plans that have very little chance of happening)

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Bâtir des châteaux en Espagne

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To get on someone’s nerves

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Casser les pieds de qqn

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To be kept waiting/ hanging around

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Faire le poireau

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To be in the know/ really into sth

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Être branché qqc

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It’s raining cats and dogs

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Il tombe des hallebardes

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It’s not asking the impossible

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Ce n’est pas la mer à boire

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To sit in the fence

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Ménager la chèvre et le chou

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13
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When pigs fly

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Quand les poules auront des dents

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Preference/ choice

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La prédilection

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To deal a blow

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Assener le coup

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16
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Tightly bunched

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Dans un mouchoir de poche

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Market sector

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Le segment de marché

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Muscular/ built

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Baraqué

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Merciful

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Miséricordieux

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To want the best for

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Vouloir du bien à

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21
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To give up sth

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Renoncer à

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22
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Publishing house

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La maison d’édition

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23
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Within easy reach

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À portée de main

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24
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The fact remains that

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Il n’en demeure pas moins que

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25
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Major/ dominant

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Prépondérant

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To roam / wander

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Errer

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27
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Tossed around/ shunted back and forth

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Ballotté

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To the great displeasure of

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Au grand dam de

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29
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A round up

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Une rafle

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30
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colllaborator (pej)

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un collabo

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chief of police

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le commissaire de police

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32
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to take someone

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emmener

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to pile up

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entasser

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proof

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un justificatif

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to entertain/amuse

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distraire

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hold, grip, influence

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une emprise

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moulds/models

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le moulage

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ethnic cleansing

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le nettoyage ethnique

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decree/ruling

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une ordonnance

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to upset, pain

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faire mal au coeur à qqn

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time zone

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un fuseau horaire

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to indulge in

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se livrer à

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to drag

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trainer

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Deprive of

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démuni de

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to converge/come together

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affluer

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scapegoat

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un bouc-émissaire

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in search of

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en quete de

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tide

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la marée

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estate

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la cité

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social housing

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le HLM

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for lack of

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faute de

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citizens, expats

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les ressortissants

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To dispossess

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Spoiler

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Dispossession

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La spoliation

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Decree

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Une ordonnance

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hastily

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à la sauvette

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hardships

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privations

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to shave

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tondre

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a favour

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un service rendu

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hard, tough

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rude

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to be in tune with

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etre en phase avec

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to set up one’s own company

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monter sa propre boite

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irregular, fragmented

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discontinu

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Swanky, posh

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Huppé

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to drown, mask in

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noyer qqc dans qqc

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Fussy

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Pointilleux

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to subdue/quell

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mater

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resistant/defiant to

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réfractaire à

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to hide, conceal

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dissimuler

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through, by the means of

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par le biais de

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frizzy

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crépu

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fluffy (cake, mash)

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léger

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to come to mind

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venir à l’esprit

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scaffold

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l’échaufaud

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stage

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l’éstrade

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square

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le parvis

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chunky (person)

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trepu

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tonsils

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les amygdales

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to sketch, outline

to begin, go to do

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esquisser

80
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to take shape, come together

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s’esquisser

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humiliation, affront

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un camouflet

82
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To laugh in the face of sth

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Faire fi de qqc

French adv (20 decks)

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